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THE POLITICS OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE VICISSITUDES OF FAITH CIRCA 1950: KARL STERN'S PSYCHIATRIC NOVEL
Author(s) -
Burston Daniel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/jhbs.21742
Subject(s) - stern , pillar , faith , politics , psychoanalysis , psychiatry , psychology , sociology , philosophy , law , history , theology , political science , engineering , ancient history , structural engineering
Karl Stern, MD (1906–1975) was the author of The Pillar of Fire (1951) and three nonfiction books on psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and religion. His novel, Through Dooms of Love (1960), written with the assistance of his friend and admirer Graham Greene, covers a number of topics that were to psychiatric theory, treatment, and research at mid‐century, and reflects several features of his own personal and professional vicissitudes.